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The Home Office released Circular 003/2026: drug precursor chemicals describing changes to control a wider set of drug precursor chemicals in the UK, Drug precursor chemicals: documenting, recording and labelling and organisations’ responsibilities and Circular 002/2026: orphines – temporary controls on 7 orphines…

Recent parliamentary questions and answers featured Hospitals: Alcoholic Drinks and what steps is government taking to help reduce alcohol-related hospital admissions, Steroid Drugs: Young People and the use of IPEDs and SARMS and Prisons: Drugs and Violence including tackling drug use in prisons.

Public Health Scotland has released National naloxone programme Scotland – Quarterly monitoring bulletin (19,680 naloxone kits were issued October-December 2025) and NHS stop smoking services quarterly (from October-December 2025, 1,139 quits out of 1,757).

The UK government is committed to promoting no/lo-alcohol drinks as a public health strategy in its NHS 10-year plan. For her PhD, Lucy Burke of University of Sheffield confirmed that no/lo drinks may be a poor substitute to standard alcohol…

In this 3:39-minute video, Sky News demonstrates how tech-savvy criminals are increasingly using drones to smuggle drugs, phones, and even weapons, into prisons. It was  given access to one facility trying to combat the problem by installing steel grills over…